Hermes Agent Operating System is INSANE!

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Hermes Agent Operating System is insane. What if your AI agent could actually get smarter every single day? Not just answer questions, learn, remember, grow. Most people are still typing into a chat box and starting from zero every time. But there's a tool that quietly fixes all of that, and almost nobody is talking about it yet. I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, and my whole job is helping you learn AI tools and actually use them in your work. Today, we're breaking down Hermes Agent, the agent operating system built by Nous Research. And by the end of this, you'll see why I think it's one of the wildest open tools out right now. Stick around because near the end I'll show you the one feature that made me completely rethink how I run things day-to-day. So, let me tell you what Hermes Agent actually is, because it's not what you think. Most AI tools are just a chat window. You ask, it answers, and the second you close the tab, it forgets everything. You start over again and again. It's like training a new assistant every morning who has no idea who you are. Hermes is built the opposite way. It's an agent that gets more useful the longer you run it. Nous Research calls it the agent that grows with you. And the best part, it's completely open. It's on and anyone can grab it and run it themselves. Here's the headline feature. Hermes has what they call a closed learning loop. That's a fancy way of saying it learns from its own work. When it finishes a hard task, it can turn that into a skill and save it. Next time something similar comes up, it already knows how to do it. And those skills actually improve while it uses them. So, it's not stuck. It keeps leveling up. Let me show you what that means in real life. I used this to build out a full content series designed to bring more people into the AI Profit Boardroom. I fed it a list of topics AI Profit Boardroom members keep asking about, and I let it draft the scripts, the hooks, and the captions in one go. That kind of content is exactly what pulls the right people into the AI Profit Boardroom. And here's the wild part. The first time it did it, it figured out my style. The next time I asked, it remembered. It didn't make me explain everything from scratch again. That memory piece is huge. Hermes remembers across sessions. It can even search through its own past conversations to pull back something you talked about weeks ago. So, it builds a real picture of how you work over time. Most chatbots can't do that. They wipe the slate every single time. And it doesn't just sit on your laptop waiting. This is where it gets really good. Hermes lives where you already are. You can talk to it from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and a bunch more. Over 20 platforms all running from one place. So, you can message it like a friend and it just works in the background. Here's how I'd use that. I could connect Hermes to Telegram and run my AI Profit Boardroom tasks straight from my phone while I'm out walking the dog. I send it a quick message, it goes off and does the work on a little server somewhere, and it pings me back when it's done. I'm not stuck at a desk. The agent is doing the heavy lifting for the AI Profit Boardroom while I'm living my life. And speaking of running somewhere, you don't even need a powerful computer. You can run Hermes on a tiny, lightweight server. Or you can run it on something that goes to sleep when you're not using it. So, it sits there quietly and barely uses anything until you need it again. It's not chained to your laptop. That alone is a big deal. Now, let me hit the feature that honestly surprised me the most. The scheduled tasks. Hermes has a built-in scheduler. You can tell it in plain everyday English to do something on a timer, a daily report, a nightly check, a weekly summary. You just describe it like you're talking to a person, and it runs on its own without you touching it. This is what I do inside the AI Profit Boardroom to stay on top of things. I set up a daily check that pulls together what's working and sends it straight to me every morning. I don't have to remember to run it. I don't have to log in. It just shows up. That means I spend less time checking dashboards and more time actually helping AI Profit Boardroom members. Okay, let me pause here for a second because I know some of you are watching this and thinking, "This sounds amazing, but it also sounds complicated. How do I even start? Where do I learn this properly without spending 3 weeks digging through docs?" That's exactly why we built the AI Profit Boardroom around tools like this. Because here's the thing about Hermes. It's powerful, but the setup has a few moving parts. Picking your model, connecting your messaging apps, getting your skills and memory dialed in. And if you've never done it, it's easy to get stuck on step one and give up. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, we've made that part simple. You can get the full zip file inside, ready to install, so you don't have to fumble through it alone. And we built out a complete 30-day roadmap in there as use cases, walking you through it step-by-step from your first install all the way to running automations on autopilot. There are walkthroughs that show you exactly which buttons to press. There are live coaching calls where you can show up, share your screen, and ask, "Hey, why isn't my agent connecting to Telegram?" and get a real answer on the spot. And there are ready-to-go prompts built specifically for this kind of agent, so you're not staring at a blank screen wondering what to type. So, if you're watching this and you want to actually use Hermes instead of just hearing about it, the AI Profit Boardroom is built for exactly this moment. You join, you grab the setup, you follow the roadmap, and you're up and running way faster than going it alone. All right, let me get back into the tool because there's more here that blew me away. Let's talk about something called sub-agents. This is one of those features that sounds nerdy but is actually really practical. Hermes can spin up little helper agents that work at the same time on different jobs. So, instead of doing one thing, then the next thing, then the next, it splits the work and runs them side-by-side. It's like going from one worker to a small team in seconds. I ran this to map out the entire onboarding flow new AI Profit Boardroom members go through on day one. While one helper planned the welcome messages, another lined up the first call prep, and another sorted the resource walkthroughs, all from one simple request. So, new AI Profit Boardroom members land inside and instantly know what to do next, and I didn't have to build each piece one at a time. Then there's the tools. Hermes comes with over 60 built-in tools right out of the box, web search, reading and writing files, browsing the web, even making images and turning text into speech. And if it doesn't have a tool you need, it can connect to outside tools through something called MCP. Think of MCP like a universal plug. It lets Hermes hook into all sorts of other services, so it can do even more. So, the agent isn't limited to one little box. It can reach out and actually get things done in the real world. And here's the part I love because it keeps you free. Hermes doesn't lock you into one AI brain. You can use whatever model you want. There are hundreds of models you can pick from, and you switch between them with one simple command. No rewriting anything. No starting over. If a better model comes out next month, you just swap to it. You're never trapped. It even has a voice mode, so you can talk to it out loud instead of typing. And you can give it a personality, so it talks back in a way that actually fits you. It's not this stiff, robotic thing. You shape how it feels. And here's something that gives me real peace of mind. Hermes doesn't just run wild on your machine. It can ask you before it does anything risky, so you stay in control the whole time. You approve the big stuff and it handles the rest. You can even run it inside its own little sandbox, so it never touches things you don't want it to touch. And on your messaging apps, you can send it a quick voice memo instead of typing it all out and it understands you. So, you talk, it listens, and it acts. That's the kind of safety and ease that makes me comfortable handing it real work instead of babysitting every single step. Now, let me bring this all together because this is the part that made it click for me. Most AI tools are a one-time thing. You use them, they forget you, and tomorrow you do it all again. Hermes is the opposite. It remembers, it learns, it runs on its own, it lives on your phone, your chat apps, a tiny server in the cloud. It builds skills, it schedules itself, and it keeps getting better the more you lean on it. That's why people are calling it an agent operating system, not just a chatbot. It's the difference between hiring a temp every morning and building one assistant who actually knows your whole setup. And the team behind it keeps shipping. The newest version just dropped in June 2026, so this is being worked on right now, not some dusty project. That matters because you want to learn a tool that's going to keep growing with you. So, here's what I want you to take away. You don't need to be a coder to start with this. You just need a simple path and someone to point you in the right direction when you get stuck. If you want the full process, the SOPs, and 100 plus AI use cases just like this one, join the AI Success Lab. Links are in the comments and the description. You'll get all the video notes from there, plus access to our community of 75,000 members who are crushing it with AI. And if you're ready to actually set Hermes up and not just watch a video about it, that's where the AI Profit Boardroom comes in because the moment you start, you're going to hit real questions. Which model do I pick? How do I connect my messaging apps? Why won't my first automation run? That's normal, and that's exactly what we help you with. Inside, you can get the full zip file ready to install, and we built out a complete 30-day roadmap in there. As use cases, that takes you from zero to running, plus the walkthroughs that show you every step, the live coaching calls where you can ask about your own setup, and the prompts built for this exact kind of agent. We help you get through the messy first week fast, so you actually end up with a working agent instead of a half-finished one. Come join us at AI Profit Boardroom.com.